Rebuked by a federal judge for failing to show remorse, A. Alfred Taubman, the principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison and fined $7.5 million for leading a six-year price-fixing scheme...

The former chairman of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, who was convicted last month of price fixing, is seeking a new trial. Mr. Taubman's lawyers say that the judge erred in his instructions to the jury. In court papers filed yesterday, the lawyers...

On Wednesday, the jury in a Manhattan federal district courtroom convicted A. Alfred Taubman, the former head of the international auction house Sotheby's, for his part in a price-fixing scheme with his counterpart, Sir Anthony Tennant, at...

When Sotheby's and Christie's first conspired in the mid-1990's to fix the commission rates charged to sellers at their auctions, they were reacting, at least in part, to a desperate financial situation. In the throes of fierce competition, both...

A. Alfred Taubman, who dipped into a billion-dollar fortune from shopping centers to become principal owner of Sotheby's, was found guilty yesterday of conspiring with its rival, Christie's, to fix fees charged to auction house sellers. The...

Summing up their cases in the criminal conspiracy trial of Sotheby's former chairman, A. Alfred Taubman, the lead prosecutor portrayed him yesterday as a devious price fixer who cut an illegal deal with Christie's, the archrival auction house, while...

What the government has presented as a flagrant collusion agreement between the leaders of Sotheby's and Christie's was widely disregarded by both auction houses, a defense witness testified yesterday in the price-fixing trial of the former Sotheby's...

Two executives of Sotheby's and Christie's initiated their own scheme to fix rates for auction buyers as early as 1992, one of them reluctantly testified yesterday. Their collusion began a year before the government claims the two executives'...